How did you use your knife today?

Isn't it great when you use a knife to open a package with a knife inside? Used a case to open up my new CRKT Neck! Oh yeah, also used my spyderco rescue to break some cracked glass out of a house window I'm replacing.

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Yesterday was a great knife day! My dad lives in a small town (less than 500 inhabitants), a great place where I keep my horses, with lots of small dirt roads to ride around and nice creeks.

It's part of a series of towns in the province of Buenos Aires (Argentina) that take traditional criollo culture very seriously. It's great because you get to walk around with a fixed blade without worrying about sheeple or the police. Fixed blades are the traditional knife here, I'm kind of an odball because I use folders as well and carry fixed blades that aren't like the typical local ones (like Barkies, some customs or a scandi).

There's a bigger town about 4km away, where we go to buy groceries, rent DVDs and stuff like that. Even there you can ride a horse through the main street and nobody'll say anything to you.

We had lots of May 1st celebrations yesterday, a huge asado with jineteada (barbecue and a rodeo, Argentine style :-) ), lots of fun. It is so common for people to carry knives here, that when you buy food at one of the stands they don't provide any cutlery! And these aren't sandwiches I'm talking about, you can buy 2 pounds of excellent meat, grilled over deliciously scented hardwood (quebracho) for around 6 dollars.

So my knife saw a lot of work cutting up meat and bread (we use bread as a sort of plate and eat on our horse), then doing some quick repairs on a saddle. I also cut up some food and used my SAK to fix a bed. Plus all sorts of regular farm stuff (opening food bags, cutting rope, etc.).

What I love about these country celebrations is that you can see kids running around with huge knives tucked behind their backs and nobody seems to care. Tourists are fun, too. They didn't know about the "el que no tiene cuchillo no come" ("if you don't have a knife you don't eat") policy followed at these events, and were a bit embarrased to ask for help. Luckily my dad seemed to have an endless supply of Opinel parring knives in his saddle bags.
 
Just got home from a rather long out-of-town project yesterday (Thank God!!)and proceed to use my old 1974 Case 6202 1/2 slippy for cutting banana's for my breakfast waffle, cutting open three 80 pound bags of salt for my water system softener, cut extra slit-holes on my zero scape hose for my ficus shrubs to enable extra water as we are in one-helluva severe drought down here. Ohh yea, and just cut one of my Florida Oranges for a pre-supper snack.. :D

Great Thread BTW.. :thumbup:
 
Franciscomv said:
Yesterday was a great knife day! My dad lives in a small town (less than 500 inhabitants), a great place where I keep my horses, with lots of small dirt roads to ride around and nice creeks.

It's part of a series of towns in the province of Buenos Aires (Argentina) that take traditional criollo culture very seriously. It's great because you get to walk around with a fixed blade without worrying about sheeple or the police. Fixed blades are the traditional knife here, I'm kind of an odball because I use folders as well and carry fixed blades that aren't like the typical local ones (like Barkies, some customs or a scandi).

There's a bigger town about 4km away, where we go to buy groceries, rent DVDs and stuff like that. Even there you can ride a horse through the main street and nobody'll say anything to you.

We had lots of May 1st celebrations yesterday, a huge asado with jineteada (barbecue and a rodeo, Argentine style :-) ), lots of fun. It is so common for people to carry knives here, that when you buy food at one of the stands they don't provide any cutlery! And these aren't sandwiches I'm talking about, you can buy 2 pounds of excellent meat, grilled over deliciously scented hardwood (quebracho) for around 6 dollars.

So my knife saw a lot of work cutting up meat and bread (we use bread as a sort of plate and eat on our horse), then doing some quick repairs on a saddle. I also cut up some food and used my SAK to fix a bed. Plus all sorts of regular farm stuff (opening food bags, cutting rope, etc.).

What I love about these country celebrations is that you can see kids running around with huge knives tucked behind their backs and nobody seems to care. Tourists are fun, too. They didn't know about the "el que no tiene cuchillo no come" ("if you don't have a knife you don't eat") policy followed at these events, and were a bit embarrased to ask for help. Luckily my dad seemed to have an endless supply of Opinel parring knives in his saddle bags.
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This is very cool!..:cool:

Nice to here about other cultures!!.. Please keep this kind of stuff coming!!.:thumbup:

Many Blessings ><> ~ ~ ><>
 
Franciscomv, that is the way to live!

One thing I've noticed on here is how many of us use our pocket knives for food. Not so much in kitchen prep, but in restaurants, at work and play, or just to eat a snack. Good to know there are more than a few of us around.

About the only thing I managed today was trimming a callous with my EW Model IX Mini and opening some mail with my Lumber Jack. I haven't been real active today. There are some tangelos and a kiwi needing skinned later tonight though.
 
Francisco my man you and yours sure seem to know how to have a good time and that sounds like my kind of place. I'd love to visit an eatery that told me I wouldn't get to eat if I didn't bring my own knife. Alas it was another slow day for me I just used my Schrade 194OT to open an envelope that contained some parts for an old outboard I'm working on.

Garrett
 
I just used my stockman to open my mail, nothing too exciting. I can't wait until I get home, then I can use my knife in my favorite way--cutting up mangoes to eat.
 
Case Wharncliffe copperlock today. Did a little whittling during lunch. Oh, lunch. Grilled porkchop, left over from last night. Queen teardrop sliced up last night's meat, the copperlock today. Copperlock is getting a nice patina going. Dinner tonight, used a custom paring knife to slice cheese up to melt for nachos.
 
Okay, finally I cut something with my slippie worth mentioning. I had to cut down a couple cardboard boxes this evening. When my hand went to my right front pocket for the Spyderco or Benchmade that is normally there I realiized I'd put it down somewhere and didn't have it with me. I did however have a Case 62032 CV stockman in my left front, which as I'm sure you all know is 3 5/8" closed. Not a large knife by any means. So, what the hey, I gave the little knife a shot at the big bad cardboard boxes.

Well it performed admirably. The thin sheepfoot blade went through with very little wedging, and the CV steel stayed sharp, and was still sharp at the end. Cardboard is very tough on an edge but it was no problem here.

Just another example of how even we traditional knife knuts sometimes sell our slipjoints short by not using them as real work knives. However, when you do, your always reminded how you don't really need any more knife than that slippie.
 
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duluth box cutter worked great.
 
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